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the street car cities of america had huge thoracic bases. the no street car cities whatever kind of transit you put that around create the more dense neighbors and create more income that helped us get out of this mess. >> charlie: what was your biggest job as mayor other than the budget process and looking at pension? >> well we have to make sure that we grow jobs in the city and we have two kinds of job levels if you quifl that we have to focus on. one is making sure that the high particular, high fashion, high intellectual content job that pays us well that gives us a thank you base comes here and stays here. we are in competition with all the other cities in the world. on the other end we have unemployment like other. not all but a large number of those unemployed need a different level of job. they don't have great formal education. some don't have great command of the english language, so we have to be creating those jobs. they tend to be a lot lower pay. they tend to have less benefits. but nevertheless a job is better than no job and
the street car cities of america had huge thoracic bases. the no street car cities whatever kind of transit you put that around create the more dense neighbors and create more income that helped us get out of this mess. >> charlie: what was your biggest job as mayor other than the budget process and looking at pension? >> well we have to make sure that we grow jobs in the city and we have two kinds of job levels if you quifl that we have to focus on. one is making sure that the high...
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you will find we do less well in the muslim world than let's say in europe or asia or latin america. >> rose: there's another idea of the 21st century called american decline. >> uh-huh. >> rose: and joe snooi rises to say "not so fast." >> that's true. americans go through cycles of declinism every ten or 20 years. after sputnik the russians were ten feet tall. >> rose: and the japanese were ten feet tall. >> now the chinese are ten feet tall after the recession of 2008. we usually outgrow this. but the reason it's important is when you misunderstand what power relations are really like it can do two things. you can make us too fearful and it can make other countries like the chinese have hubris which makes them push in a ways which unproductive and get into trouble. >> rose: but you argue they've overextended themselves and their overconfidence about their relationship with the united states and they've made a lot of... >> rose: that's true. i was in beijing in both december and january talking with chinese friends and there is widespread view among many not just the people's liber
you will find we do less well in the muslim world than let's say in europe or asia or latin america. >> rose: there's another idea of the 21st century called american decline. >> uh-huh. >> rose: and joe snooi rises to say "not so fast." >> that's true. americans go through cycles of declinism every ten or 20 years. after sputnik the russians were ten feet tall. >> rose: and the japanese were ten feet tall. >> now the chinese are ten feet tall after...
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america was a consumer society so when the crises came or even before china was supporting, china in hits society with a lot of money was able to take u.s. debt because we were a consuming society. >> within the u.s. you have people who borrowed, okay. the person who did the wrong thing, namely take a mortgage when they should not have borrowed that much much money, okay. it's being bailed out when the person who saved money is now on the threatf high inflation to bail the other person out with a little bit of inflation. to me, there is a moral problem. there are two moral problems. no one, the innocent is paying for the mistake. the innocent the person who did the right thing is paying for mistakes of those who did the wrong thing and the second one we by borrowing, by running this now trillion plus deficit, we are transferring the risk to futuregen race. it may work out but they should not be the ones to bear, that's the romans held is that a child shall not be responsible for the sins of his father. >> charlie: so do you accept the principles of the deficit reduction a way to begi
america was a consumer society so when the crises came or even before china was supporting, china in hits society with a lot of money was able to take u.s. debt because we were a consuming society. >> within the u.s. you have people who borrowed, okay. the person who did the wrong thing, namely take a mortgage when they should not have borrowed that much much money, okay. it's being bailed out when the person who saved money is now on the threatf high inflation to bail the other person...
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it's happening every day, all across america. every time a storefront opens. or the midnight oil is burned. or when someone chases a dream, not just a dollar. they are small business owners. so if you wanna root for a real hero, support small business. shop small. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we go back to the middle east this evening. unrest has been sweeping across north africa and the middle east since december. it has toppled regimes in tunisia and egypt. in libya, allied forces are launching air strikes after the u.n. security council voted to impose a no-fly zone last week. and in places like syria, yemen, bahrain, and jordan, protests continue. joining me now is the foreign minister of morocco, taieb fassi-fihri, he was in washington on wednesday to meet with secretary of state hillary clinton. his government has weathered the current storm better than many of its neighbors and i'm sure there's a reason for that. i'm pleased to have the foreign minister at this table for th
it's happening every day, all across america. every time a storefront opens. or the midnight oil is burned. or when someone chases a dream, not just a dollar. they are small business owners. so if you wanna root for a real hero, support small business. shop small. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we go back to the middle east this evening. unrest has been sweeping across north africa and the middle east since...
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it's a good thing about america. money is important but votes will beat money everyday. >> rose: there is also this when people talk about dodd-frank. it's the notion that much of the regulations remain to be done and to be defined. >> true. >> rose: so the bank says we're uncertain about how we feel about this because we don't know how it will come down in the end. >> true. fair point. >> rose: so the power is the people who define the enforcement. >> some of it is. although there were limits to what we do. for instance we say if there is a fill your, this whole "too big to fail," from now on if an institution fails it the goes out of business. it may be illegal now to do what was done in 2008. i don't y that critically of henry paulson and ben bernanke who i admire. they had no option. one of the things we did was respond to henry paulson, the secretary of the treasury's request that we give him options. if a large institution fails, here's the problem. it's got debts it owes to so many different people who in turn
it's a good thing about america. money is important but votes will beat money everyday. >> rose: there is also this when people talk about dodd-frank. it's the notion that much of the regulations remain to be done and to be defined. >> true. >> rose: so the bank says we're uncertain about how we feel about this because we don't know how it will come down in the end. >> true. fair point. >> rose: so the power is the people who define the enforcement. >> some...
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we also know he was a good friend of america in terms of presidents including jimmy carter. right before they overthrew him. >> absolutely. he was the friend of every president from f.d.r. to jimmy carter. he had closer ties with some like eisenhower and nixon. he was a modernizing authoritarian weak vacillating. >> rose: so even at the height of his power he was weak and vacillating. it wasn't just here in the end when he was sic as well as when he was faced a three that he couldn't comprehend? >> well, that's the complication of his character. no mosaddegh era he is exactly that weak and vacillating character we see in '78. when he feels empowered, as he does in 1974, he has no problem making decisions. it's the kind of authoritarian personality, weak and vacillating when they feel weak and overriding and bullish when they feel strong. the shah had exactly these two aspects of his personality he could sit as he literally did behind the table and order the country to become a one-party system and to the absolute dread of the u.s. he increased the price of oil, he began a nu
we also know he was a good friend of america in terms of presidents including jimmy carter. right before they overthrew him. >> absolutely. he was the friend of every president from f.d.r. to jimmy carter. he had closer ties with some like eisenhower and nixon. he was a modernizing authoritarian weak vacillating. >> rose: so even at the height of his power he was weak and vacillating. it wasn't just here in the end when he was sic as well as when he was faced a three that he...